384 Ch 384 - Yino, Stop Right There!!! [2]
Yino smoothly spun his tale.
Hearing this, Yuyan's face turned red again.
She had to admit that what Yino said made sense. If he had tried hitting on her at a martial arts tournament, Yuyan probably wouldn't have given a man with obvious ulterior motives the time of day...
Instead, in this ordinary daily life, Yuyan was more likely to let her guard down around Yino.
Thinking about this, Yuyan was convinced and sighed in defeat:
"So you really came to Wuji Sect just to marry me?"
"Not entirely."
Yino smiled mysteriously and turned to look at Yuyan: "Besides senior sister, I've been cultivating at Wuji Sect for half a year and hooked up with several other girls too, haven't I?"
As he said this, Yino deliberately rubbed the head of the little fox curled up on his shoulder.
Yuyan's beautiful eyes widened slightly.
Now that Yino had a private romantic relationship with her, she'd naturally get jealous. But thinking about how Jinyue had almost sacrificed her life to save Yino in the Demon Abyss...
The life-and-death bond between Jinyue and Yino seemed no less than what Yuyan had with him.
Honestly, Yuyan actually admired Jinyue a lot.
Being pampered by Yino like this now was what she deserved. After all, could Yuyan have initially done the "bleeding from seven orifices to save Yino's life" thing, even "repeatedly having her flesh and blood collapse"?
"Several... does Wangxue count too?"
"Yep."
"What about that tree spirit girl..."
"Yep."
"Does Liuli count?"
"Yep."
"Don't tell me Yunjin counts too?"
"Probably, though she's not a demon... Oh! I forgot to introduce another new member. Her name is Wangziu. Back at the Holy Church, I relied on Wangziu to fight you."
While chatting, Yino didn't forget to show off the black-red demon blade under his feet.
After all, this was the holy sword that had guarded the Holy Church for a hundred years. Grade-wise, it really wasn't much inferior to Yuyan's family heirloom Frost Chant sword!
Before, Yino had always lacked his own sword spirit and could only freeload off Yuyan's Frost Chant sword. Now Yino could finally step on his own sword and fly!
This feeling was like finally owning his own car in his previous life!
"..."
Yuyan went silent. She suddenly realized how much competition she faced as Yino's potential spouse.
And she'd been completely clueless about it before!
Buzz—!!!
At some point, the silver-white thin sword under Yuyan's feet also faintly hummed.
Yuyan first raised her eyebrows slightly, then quickly sensed some kind of dissatisfied emotion from the Frost Chant sword.
"What the..."
"What exactly did you do to the Frost Chant sword? Why is even a sword acting like this toward you?"
The absurd situation made Yuyan suspicious.
Thinking about it carefully, the Frost Chant sword had been acting weird for a while!
Back at the Holy Church, she'd recognized Yino's scent from far away, and later she'd disobeyed Yuyan's will several times at crucial moments, deliberately deviating from her sword path to save Yino...
Now even more ridiculously, the Frost Chant seemed to be getting jealous over Yino too!
Wait...
It's one thing for you to want to sleep with me, but why has even my sword been won over?!
"I didn't do anything special with the Frost Chant. I just carried her around in Azure Forest and couldn't bear to let go."
"????"
"Don't get the wrong idea, senior sister. It's just because the Frost Chant carries senior sister's milky fragrance."
"Your explanation makes it sound even worse!"
Yuyan's face went completely red. After all this time, she suddenly realized that although Yino had grown a lot, his nature was still the same as that first night when she met him—talking complete nonsense!
"Sigh, what inappropriate things could I possibly do with a sword?"
"We're just pure comrades-in-arms. Right, Frosty?"
Yino sighed and said somewhat seriously.
As his words fell, the Frost Chant under Yuyan's feet briefly hummed in response.
"F… Frosty...?"
Yuyan became even more suspicious. She never dreamed that one day she'd have to guard against her own sword stealing her man!
"Speaking of which..."
"Ever since earlier, I've felt like something's been staring at me from behind..."
While flying, Yino suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.
He reached back to scratch, couldn't help turning around to look, but in that instant of looking back, Yino's eyes met with a white dragon girl far away on the horizon—
"Holy shit! Why is she still there?!"
"Yino! Stop right there—!!!"
.....
Honestly, Yino had completely forgotten about Nina.
This wasn't just because he'd been fighting his ass off in the Demon Abyss - it was more that in the game, Nina barely had any presence in the plot anyway.
Now feeling that familiar dragon aura bearing down on him again, Yino suddenly snapped back to reality. He realized that before running off, he probably still owed a certain girl some kind of explanation.
"Yino! Stop right there!!!"
The dragon girl behind them had long horns sprouting from her head, flying while yelling at him.
Her voice naturally startled Yuyan too, but Yuyan was in unfamiliar territory right now. She basically just followed Yino's lead on everything.
"Yino... sounds like another girl's calling for you?"
Yuyan reminded him.
But Yino's face fell. After mulling it over, he decided to steel himself and pretend he hadn't heard:
"Jin City's not far ahead. We'll stop and talk with her after we get through the checkpoint."
"Mm..."
Yuyan thought about the jurisdictional issues Yino had mentioned earlier and roughly guessed his thinking.
Time was tight, so they didn't say more. But with the dragon girl chasing them, they picked up speed on their swords and headed toward the main city guarding the western frontier.
When they reached the city gates, Yino finally slowed down and voluntarily landed to submit to inspection by the checkpoint guards.
"State your business."
Now that they'd entered more Central Plains territory, even the patrol soldiers' uniforms and attitudes had changed considerably.
At least from Yino's perspective, they looked much more familiar. Without the cultural mixing from the Western Region, these soldiers' faces and armor were almost identical to what he'd seen in Luo City.
Uniform dress meant uniform ranks and systems.
"This is Senior Yuyan, Sword Leader of Wuji Sect. I'm her junior brother and also the Seventh Young Master of the He family."
With that simple introduction, Yino produced the Grand Tutor's Mansion token from his waist.
The stationed guards' eyes immediately lit up. They carefully examined the token, and after confirming its authenticity, quickly bowed respectfully: "Young Master has traveled far - please, enter..."
Several guards bowed respectfully.
But soon they also noticed a certain stunning beauty in strange Western Region clothing standing beside Yino.
"Uh... is this the famous Senior Yuyan of Wuji Sect?"
They were just gate guards after all. No matter how worldly they were, they'd never actually seen the famous sword leader wearing a maid outfit.
How to put it... the scene was hard to process.
That gorgeous woman in the weird dress standing next to the Grand Tutor's Seventh Young Master gave off this vibe of a rich boy taking a stunning goddess out for some kind of private roleplay...
"What, can't recognize my senior sister's face? A beauty this gorgeous - who else could she be besides Wuji Sect's Destiny girl?"
Seeing the guards couldn't recognize her, Yino cleared his throat for emphasis.
He wanted to reach out and put his arm around his senior sister's waist, but sensing her somewhat icy, annoyed glare, Yino behaved himself much better in front of strangers.
Okay... I really was pushing my luck and lacking basic respect for senior sister.
"I'm Yuyan, and here's Wuji Sect's pendant."